Doug Burgum

Bureau of Reclamation, Open Service Mining, Offshore Bureau of Energy Management, which is all the offshore, all the national parks, all the relationships and trust management with Bureau of Indian Affairs.

You add all of this stuff up, we're talking 500 million acres of surface, 700 million acres of subsurface,

3.2 billion of offshore acres.

If interior was a balance sheet, it would be the largest balance sheet in the world in terms of asset management.

And of course, buried in all that is the rich in minerals, rich for grazing, rich for timber, rich for oil and gas, critical minerals.

And when we do a lease

The money goes to the American citizens.

People talk about all the debt that America has with all this debt.

Our balance sheet on the asset side could be 10 times bigger than what our debt is and we never talk about it.

Think of this as the balance sheet of America.

Well, I would say, oh yeah, I have had a chance to get into that.

But one thing we are doing is, because it is so cool under the Lincoln Memorial, a lot of people don't know that whole thing is built like on gigantic cathedral arches that lift it up like almost 100 feet.

We're opening up a museum in conjunction with Freedom 250 under the Lincoln Memorial.

So all the citizens are going to be able to get in there and get a chance to see exactly the amazing engineering that holds that incredible, iconic memorial up in the air on what was a swamp.

They filled it in, they built these cathedral arches, and it's sort of like the Lincoln Memorial is built on top of Notre Dame because that's what it feels like underneath it.

Absolutely.

And of course, this is, as you said, you asked about the honor, but serving as the 55th Secretary of Interior, one of the oldest departments in the government, and have an opportunity because we have not just our 63 flagship national parks, which everybody thinks about, the Yosemites, the Grand Canyon, the Yellowstones, the glaciers, but we also have the

All the historic sites, we have everything from Concord and Lexington, Independence Hall, every Civil War battlefield, revolutionary battlefields, almost 500 national historic sites.

And so at Interior, then we manage across all of those locations any objects that are found.

So think of like the Indiana Jones aspect of this thing, which is the Interior curates more historical objects than anybody but the Smithsonian.